{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 202/1920-12-23/p014","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Christ Jesus appeared amongst a people who worshipped Jahve or Jehovah, that Jehovah-God who is connected with all that is natural existence, who lives in thunder and lightning, in the motion of the clouds and stars, in the springs and rushing streams, in the growth of plants, animals and men. Jahve is that God who can never, if man is connected with Him alone, give man his completeness, for He gives man the consciousness of his natural birth, with an intermixture of course of a spiritual element which is not merely natural; but He does not give man the consciousness of his rebirth which he must attain through something which cannot be given him by means of natural physical forces. So we see how modern humanity is led away and diverted from Christ Jesus for Whom there is no distinction of class, nation or race, but for Whom there is only a single humanity. We see how the thoughts and feelings of modern humanity have been led aside to that which has already been overcome by the birth of Jesus Christ; to that which lies at the basis of man's origin through the forces of nature and which is connected with the differentiation of men into classes, nations and races. And if it was the *one* Jehovah that the Jews worshipped when Christ came, then the modern nations have returned to *many* Jehovahs. For what is worshipped today—even if it is no longer described by the ancient name—the powers to which men do worship when they divide themselves up into nations and make war on each other as nations—they are Jehovahs. We see the nations fighting each other in bloody wars—each at certain moments calling upon the name of Christ—in reality, however, it is not Christ on Whom the nations call, but only Jehovah, not the one Jehovah but *a* Jehovah. The people have simply returned to him and have forgotten how great a step forward was taken when the Jehovah principle gave place to the Christ principle.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"I. 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Denn er gibt dem Menschen das Bewußtsein seiner natürlichen Geburt, allerdings mit ihrem geistigen Einschlag von Kräften, die nicht bloß natürlich sind, aber er gibt dem Menschen nicht das Bewußtsein von seiner Wiedergeburt, die er sich erwerben muß durch etwas, was ihm nicht durch natürlich-sinnlich-physische Kräfte gegeben werden kann. Und so sehen wir denn, wie abgelenkt worden ist die neuere Menschheit von dem Christus Jesus, für den es keinen Unterschied gibt der Klassen, keinen Unterschied der Völker, keinen Unterschied der Rassen, für den es nur ein einziges Menschtum gibt, wie abgelenkt worden sind die Gedanken, die Empfindungen der neueren Menschheit zu dem, was durch das Mysterium des Geborenwerdens des Christus Jesus schon überwunden war: zu dem hin, was nur zugrunde liegt den natürlichen Kräften der Menschheitsentstehung, die zusammenhängen mit der Menschheitsdifferenzierung in Klassen, in Völker, in Rassen. Und wenn es der eine Jahve war, welchen das Judenvolk verehrt hat, als der Christus Jesus ankam, so sind die neueren Völker zurückgekehrt zu den vielen Jahves! Denn das, was aus den heutigen nationalen Prinzipien heraus die Völker verehren — wenn es auch nicht mehr mit den alten Namen bezeichnet wird, was sie so verehren, daß sie sich trennen in Nationen, daß sie sich befehden als Nationen —, es sind Jahves. Und wir erleben es, daß die Völker in blutigen Kriegen miteinander kämpfen und daß ein jedes sich unter Umständen auf den Christus beruft. Es ist aber in Wahrheit nicht der Christus, auf den sich dann die Völker berufen, es ist nur ein Jahve, nicht der einige Jahve, sondern ein Jahve. Die Menschen sind bloß zu ihm zurückgekehrt. Die Menschen haben vergessen, wie ein Fortschritt darinnen lag, daß von dem Jahveprinzip zu dem Christus-Prinzip vorgeschritten worden ist. 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